Saturday, July 13, 2013

Physical Therapy, Chronic Pain, Yoga

I started doing physical therapy for chronic post-surgical pain right
around the same time that I stopped practicing mediation and asana at home.I was hesitant to enter into a year-long teach training
because I was already spending too much time thinking about broken parts of my body.Yoga, however, is not about the
broken parts of your body, but about the awesome parts of having a body (especially
if you breathe) and now that the swollen muscle / damaged nerve cluster in my
chest is better and I have full feeling in my hands again I think PT is done. That
way, I can get back to the parts of yoga I really like: breath, calm, soothing
and toning nervous system, & yoga party tricks.